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Protect children from toxic chemicals
While delighted to learn from Michael Hawthorne's article ("Pediatricians Seek Change in Lax Toxic Chemicals Law," April 25) that the American Academy of Pediatrics has joined a national campaign to revise the 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), such...Tags: Maryland, Prince George's County, Health and Safety at School, Parenting, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Cleaners leave a toxic legacy
Tribune staff reporterFor decades, one of the nation's most widely used dry cleaning solvents was billed as a marvel of modern chemistry that could safely remove dirt and stains from clothing. Shops sprang up to take advantage of the chemical, perchloroethylene, also known as...Tags: Science and Technology, Rod Blagojevich, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Air pollution lawsuit: Federal and state lawyers sue Midwest Generation over Illinois power plant emissions
Tribune reporterFrom the outside, the power plant that towers above Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood looks like a sooty relic from the early part of the last century. The Fisk plant has been burning coal to generate electricity on the Near West Side since 1903. But federal...Tags: Little Village, Science and Technology, Mining, Government, Companies and Corporations
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A polluters' paradise?
Tribune staff reporterToxic sludge oozed out of rusty barrels, soaked through cardboard boxes and spilled over frothy vats inside a west suburban warehouse raided by state inspectors in January 2008. Even though the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency had plenty of...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Mining, Government, Companies and Corporations, Trials
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Crestwood residents in dark on cancer
Tribune staff reporterSix months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the results. The Illinois Department of Public Health, which earlier had failed to notify...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Water Supply, Physical Therapists, Cancer, Environmental Issues
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Chicago water: In public reports, city silent over sex hormones and painkillers found in treated drinking water
Tribune reporterAnnual water quality reports mailed to Chicagoans this month didn't say a word about sex hormones, painkillers or anti-cholesterol drugs, even though city officials found traces of pharmaceuticals and other unregulated substances in treated Lake...Tags: Water Pollution, Water Supply, Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Richard M. Daley
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EPA targets chemical often dumped in Chicago sewers
Alarmed by research linking chemicals used to make Scotchgard and Teflon to cancer, liver disease and other health problems, the federal government spent the last decade pressuring manufacturers to phase out the stain-resistant compounds. But...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Science and Technology, Minnesota, Corporate Crime, Chicago
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Crestwood taxpayers spend $1 million on legal bills to defend village leaders
Crestwood taxpayers paid lawyers more than $1 million last year to defend village leaders accused of pumping contaminated water to residents for at least two decades.
Hiring Loop law firms that specialize in white-collar criminal and civil defense cost...Tags: Patrick Fitzgerald, Richard M. Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Government, Companies and Corporations
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Tougher smog standards: New EPA proposal would lower limit to 60-70 parts per billion
Tribune reporterChicago and other urban areas across the U.S. would need to clamp down harder on air pollution under tough smog limits proposed Thursday by the Obama administration, which scrapped a George W. Bush-era rule that ignored the latest scientific advice. More...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Energy Resources, Science and Technology, Government, Mining
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Cleaning up the Chicago River
Steve ChapmanIt seems like a simple choice: Would we rather have a Chicago River that is clean enough for fish to flourish and people to swim? Or would we prefer to let polluters go on dumping filth into the city's chief...... -
EPA targets coal-fired power plants
In a move that portends cleaner air in Chicago and other communities east of the Mississippi, the Obama administration cracked down Tuesday on smog- and soot-forming pollution from coal-fired power plants in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The...Tags: Little Village, Mining, Government, Companies and Corporations, Plant Openings
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Diet Proposals Often Refuted, Ignored
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterEvery five years the American public gets a newly tweaked directive on what we're supposed to be eating. And every five years the American public largely ignores it. For example, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend we eat 2 1/2 cups of...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Diet, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Science
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